Parent
name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.). in-plural, often
"After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle."
- 2 an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained wordnet
- 3 A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children. in-plural, often
- 4 a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian wordnet
- 5 A surrogate parent.
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- 6 A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- 7 A relative. obsolete
- 8 The source or origin of something.
"Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry."
- 9 An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- 10 Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector. attributive
"The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green."
- 11 Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.; A parent company. attributive
"The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled."
- 12 The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- 13 The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- 1 To act as parent, to raise or rear.
"However, even with money and caregivers, the child is left without a parent and most likely without a plan for their emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. A time will come when you will no longer be able to parent your child, period."
- 2 look after a child until it is an adult wordnet
- 3 To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples""Let me ask you something, Dad," she began, in a tone of patiently controlled exasperation that every experienced parent is familiar with."
Etymology
From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“I breed, bring forth”).